Among the many reasons I’m excited for the NBA season to tip off next week is that with games going on, maybe Ray Allen and the Celtics will stop talking about each other. Please, please stop talking about each other.

Of course, they play each other opening night — Allen’s new team the Heat and the Celtics next Tuesday — so maybe we’ll have to suffer through this “conversation” about how and why Allen left Boston a little longer.

What I think we all want — including Celtic and Heat fans — if for both sides to just shut up about it. You don’t get along now, Allen felt disrespected, we get it. Move on. (I feel like I’m talking to my four-year-old here.)

This is really a case of Rivers only hearing what he wants to hear. Ray answers one question in one interview, while there have been dozens of “We’re Mad/Hurt/Angry/Surprised at/Better off without Ray” articles on PBT and just about every other rag out there since June; but Rivers says that Ray is the talker.

It’s like Rex Ryan complaining about Reggie Bush talking too much. You have to be kidding, right?

One question, one interview? Check your facts. It was a ton of questions and THREE interviews in one day. Who does that? He provided novel like responses to each question. Go read the transcript, And from these interviews I don’t remember reading one thing that was non-Celtic related. Doc on the other hand responds with a short and simple response. The celtics don’t let the media ask follow up questions. They end it. Ray hasn’t moved in, the celtics have.

Oh cool all PBT headlines you got there. Well in case you have not noticed by now the Main Author on this site is clearly A SUPER BIASED HEAT FAN. Who doesn’t care too much for the Celtics or many other teams.

Doesn’t anyone think it’s better if they keep talking? I mean think about it for a second. The 90s were an AMAZING era of basketball. TONS of legitimate rivalries where the teams straight up did not like each other. The games were heated and the battles were epic.

Even at the beginning of the 2000s there were some solid rivalries. But all that has stopped. Everyone is “buddy buddy” nowadays and rivalries just aren’t around. The NBA could use a solid rivalry with bickering foes and arch nemesis. I think this is great and I hope they all talk all season long.

As a Knick fan I DESPISE these two teams…but…I’ll admit I’m enjoying watching them because of the storm that’s brewing between them.